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Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer offers ‘a radically different reading experience’
It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the
Aeneid. Unlike the
Odyssey and the
Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the Homeric epics is not just that of an individual hero. Itʼs also a national origin story, said Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer “and that makes it a different kind of poem.”
In the poem, Aeneas leads his followers west from Troy, which the Greeks have sacked, in search of somewhere to start a new city. Along the way, the gods especially Juno and Aeneasʼs mother, Venus throw both obstacles and aids in his path. Finally, the Trojans land in Italy and found a city where Rome will later stand.